Tír-wine

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tír-wine

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 tír-wine

m. A glorious friend, an epithet of the follower of a successful chief:--Se hláford biþ tó upáhæfen inne on móde for ðæm anwalde ðe him ánra gehwilc his tírwina tó fultemaþ, Met. 25, 21. tir-wine

Runic Inscription

ᛏᛁᚱ-ᚹᛁᚾᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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